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About Peter Mansbridge One on One

From one of Canada’s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers and cultural icons of our time, from the country’s most trusted interview show.

An extraordinary selection from Newsworld’s Mansbridge One on One, including politicians, journalists, arts and sports figures and newsmakers behind the biggest issues of the past decade.

Canadians have long relied on award-winning anchor and journalist Peter Mansbridge to inform and enlighten us, whether at the helm of The National or on Mansbridge One on One, his weekly interview show.

In this, his first book, he collects the most illuminating and timely interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge acts as our guide as we get the inside story from prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes.

Among the more than 40 interviewees included in the book are:Bill ClintonSidney CrosbyBill GatesDiana KrallBenjamin NetanyahuBarack ObamaShimon PeresDesmond TutuBrian Wilson

From the Hardcover edition.

About Peter Mansbridge One on One

From one of Canada’s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers and cultural icons of our time, from the country’s most trusted interview show.

An extraordinary selection from Newsworld’s Mansbridge One on One, including politicians, journalists, arts and sports figures and newsmakers behind the biggest issues of the past decade.

Canadians have long relied on award-winning anchor and journalist Peter Mansbridge to inform and enlighten us, whether at the helm of The National or on Mansbridge One on One, his weekly interview show.

In this, his first book, he collects the most illuminating and timely interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge acts as our guide as we get the inside story from prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes.

Among the more than 40 interviewees included in the book are:Bill ClintonSidney CrosbyBill GatesDiana KrallBenjamin NetanyahuBarack ObamaShimon PeresDesmond TutuBrian Wilson

Praise

“One on One is a wonderful journey involving key events and key players of the past 10 years. Mansbridge writes with self-deprecating, wry humour.” — The Record

“Captures Mansbridge’s knack for informing or enlightening, even as he jousts, or empathizes, with his subjects. On television, he makes it look effortless. The book proves it’s anything but.” — Winnipeg Free Press

“His solemn, thoughtful presence has been the unofficial brand of CBC News: The National for 21 years. He’s pinned down world leaders on his Newsworld show for a decade…. Mansbridge’s offerings are some of the best reading in the book.” — Toronto Star

About Peter Mansbridge

Peter Mansbridge is the Chief Correspondent of CBC News. He anchors CBC’s flagship nightly news program, The National, and all CBC News specials. He is also the host of CBC Newsworld’s Mansbridge One on One. During a decorated career, he… More about Peter Mansbridge

About Peter Mansbridge

Peter Mansbridge is the Chief Correspondent of CBC News. He anchors CBC’s flagship nightly news program, The National, and all CBC News specials. He is also the host of CBC Newsworld’s Mansbridge One on One. During a decorated career, he… More about Peter Mansbridge

Author Essay

Ron Finch was the first person I ever interviewed. He was a nice fellow: funny, smart and happy in his job. It was the summer of 1969 in Churchill, Manitoba. The summers there are short but there’s always lots of action at the grain terminals in the harbour. Finch was the Canada Customs agent monitoring the arrival and departure of foreign ships feverishly taking part in the grain trade. Time was always ticking down on Hudson Bay’s ice-free days. When the ice returned, the Port of Churchill was shut down — there was no negotiating that fact.

Customs agent Finch had become a friend during that northern summer forty years ago, and our interview was probably one of the worst I’ve ever done. And I’ve done a lot. I’ve lost track of how many there have been since then, and I certainly couldn’t name all the people involved (most of them probably can’t remember me either). But in my career as a reporter and correspondent for two decades, and as a nightly news anchor for two more, it is probably safe to assume I’ve done an average of one interview a day. That begins to approach fifteen thousand interviews. So let’s be ultraconservative and say I’ve done around ten thousand. Remembering the first one may sound impressive — something like an NHL veteran recounting, years after the fact, his every move as he potted his first career goal. But I remember this interview for one simple reason: I was scared silly. As I lugged my heavy, briefcase-sized 1960s “portable” Nagra tape recorder down to the customs office, I had no idea how to do an interview.